ambulatory EEG - help, ponytail nightmare

[elizzza811]

I've had ambulatory EEGs before and have never had a problem. Today the lady who hooked me up must have been running behind. She was flinging my head around like a football...not guiding my head, but flinging it at will before she even finished her instructions and had given me time to move my head myself, or at least warn me...I could hear hairs snapping constantly because she wasn't even trying to be careful. The skin on my forehead feels raw from having her scrub the rubbing alcohol into it. Hairs were snapping while she was doing that throughout my head too. I'll probably have scabs. She was making 'humph' sounds whenever she couldn't find something, which happened A LOT. In fact I think she even used adhesive tape in some spots instead of gauze...maybe she ran out? She almost bent my glasses because she was in a hurry to get me out of there and I wasn't moving fast enough, I guess. I pulled them away and told her to be careful or she would break them.

Well I just tried to take a nap and I have no idea how a 'back sleeper' is supposed to position herself to sleep with the way she wrapped my hair. The 'lump' of the ponytail/bun, whatever you want to call it, is right at the ball of my head...lying flat, where the head would come in contact with the surface. So unless I sleep with my head and neck at right angles to my back (picture someone with osteoporosis), I'm screwed. I tried removing the pillow, but the ponytail/bun 'bump' is still at the wrong spot. I have long hair, and I can't even see how she wrapped it...but it feels like she rubber-banded it and then twisted it into a tight spiral over and over again, and then somehow attached it so that it doesn't hang. I looked at myself in the mirror, and something is wrong. The bandana is almost over my eyes, and the top of it points upwards, almost as if I'm wearing a birthday party hat because of how she positioned my hair underneath.

I actually complained to the office manager before I left, but I didn't realize I was going to have ponytail issues yet, just wounds and hair loss issues. I told the manager I didn't want this lady ever again, but of course, she's the only one there the rest of the week, so I'm stuck.

Did anyone here with long hair ever get an ambulatory EEG? How did they wrap your hair? Ponytail? Bun? Did they use gauze or sticky adhesive tape? I do not remember having any of these problems 4 years ago, but I can't remember exactly what they did differently. I remember having to be careful with wires, but I was able to lie down comfortably in any position.

 

[masterjen]

They should have positioned the "bun" of the wrapped cords to the top of your head rather than the back. As for the hair itself it depends on how thick one's hair is. If not too thick they just separate strands as needed for wire placement, put small ties around groups of hair to keep it out of the way of the cords/electrodes and otherwise just let the hair hang. If hair is thick I'm not sure how it is managed.

 

[elizzza811]

Thanks...I think the start of the bun is a couple of inches down from the top. And then it seems like she twisted it tightly and then attached that hunk of ponytail to the back of my head somehow. My hair is long, but it's not really that thick anymore, which is why I'm even more upset with her being careless and not even telling me to lift my head if hair was stuck, so it kept snapping.

I really think she should have separated it into pieces and let it hang. She was in a hurry though...

...thanks though...